Recent Talks

• [23 Oct. 2021] "Questioning Disciplinary Normatives: Teachings from Sign Linguistics", invited talk at Deccan College, Pune (online)
• [9th Oct. 2021] "Relating Tibeto-Burman to Dravidian: An unfinished story", invited talk at Special Talk Series of TiBLANEI (Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Association of North East India), (online) [Link]
• [30th July 2021] "Stories of Agreement", at the 53rd Foundation Day Lecture Series at CIIL, Mysore (online) [Link]
• [22 July 2021] 'Syntactic Poverty' of the East: A Case of Diversity at the Periphery, at the Language and the Problems of Justice conference (online) [Link]
• [29th June 2021] Comparing Embedded Clause and non-Nominative Subjects in Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman, paper presented at the 1st International Conference of Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Association of North East India, Tezpur University (online)(jointly with Eshani Baishya and Jyoti Sharma).
• [28th June 2021] The lack of argument indexation in some “inner” Tibeto-Burman languages, paper presented at the 1st International Conference of Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Association of North East India, Tezpur University (online).
• [28th June 2021] ‘Agree’ in Kuki-Chin and Kiranti languages, paper presented at the 1st International Conference of Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Association of North East India, Tezpur University (online)(jointly with Jyoti Sharma).
• [16th Oct. 2020] ‘Indexation Switch' in person hierarchy and negation in two subgroups of agreeing Tibeto-Burman languages, paper presented at the LCAD conference (Linearising Contituents Across Domains 2020), held Zoom at UCL, London and Bled Institute, Slovenia (jointly with Jyoti Sharma). [link]
• [4th Oct. 2020] Ex-k-lamatives in Meeteilon!, talk delivered at the the 53rd ICSTLL (International Conference on Sino-Tibetan languages and Linguistics), held via Zoom at the University of North Texas, Oct. 2-4, 2020 (jointly with Ishani Guha and Eshani Baishya), Programme
• [15th July 2020] Syntactic Roots of/ Routes to Case and Agreement, inaugural invited speaker at the CALTS WebTalk Series 1 titled "Syntax: Theoretical insights and Applications for Indian languages" [Link]
• [1st July 2020] Agreement in the East: Areal Feature to a Microparameter, online invited talk delivered at “Linguistics for Life” series at IIT, Kharagpur.[link]
• [19th December 2020] Unfolding (of) theories, not programmes (programs?), at Fostering Research in Disability winter school, NALSAR and BITS Pilani, Hyderabad.
• [28th October 2020] The Terrain of Disability Studies and Critical Abeyance, at Ambedkar University Delhi.
• For talks in 2019 and before, go to CV